Saturday, July 26, 2008

Worst. Sleep. Ever.

Sweet Potato: “Hey, Monkey Girl! Did you notice how smug mom and dad are getting about our sleeping? It’s like they just expect us to sleep from, say, 7:30 until 5:30am. I think it’s time to start training them to play with us in the middle of the night.”

Monkey Girl: *suck, suck, suck*

Sweet Potato: MOOONKEEEY GIIIIRRRL!

MG: Huh? Oh. What now, SP?

SP: Fine, you don’t have to help, but I’m waking mom and dad up Right. Now!

SP: Good point. Did I tell you? I learned this new trick that really freaks them out. I flip onto my stomach in the crib so that I’m face down in the sheets. Mom always picks me up. It’s great fun. Watch!

Flip.

WAAAAAAAAAAAA! WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

(Mom enters. Freaks out as predicted, and flips sweet potato.)

SP: See! Now, watch, I’m going to do it again.

MG: I’m bored with this game. Good night.

SP: WAAAAAAAAAAA!

Flip.

Freak out.

Repeat.

Flash forward to 2:00am

SP: okay, I’ve tortured them enough. I’m going to sleep.

MG: Great! My turn!

Flash forward to 3:45am.

MG: okay, now I’m tired.

SP: but now I’m HUNGRY! WAAAAAAAAA!

*************************This reenactment has been brought to you by the Children Against Parental Sleep Council of America.

Thanks, this was hilarious. I swear, they may be itty bitty twins, but they're in their room conspiring all the time to drive us absolutely bonkers.

My son has been and still is the belly flipper...insists on sleeping face down. My daughter sleeps on her back but turns her head and crams her face against anything she can find. I don't know why they both insist on the compromised airways.

oh my gosh... my twins have been talking to your twins! I didn't sleep more than 2 hour stretches last night and feel like the babes' sleep has regressed in a huge way. Hope we get some more sleep tonight, my fellow tired twin mama!

My twin boys aren't rolling over yet, but I believe their conversation was similar last night, along the lines of:

We'll take shifts crying, so mom and dad don't get more than two consecutive hours of sleep. Then you go for the 3 a.m. "I'm awake and must eat. right. now." bit. I'll take the 4 a.m. "I'm bored come play with me" gambit. In the meantime, I'm going to flop around, fully swaddled, until my nose is firmly buried in the crib bumper.

Sleep regressions seem to be going around, like the flu. I feel your pain.

You scare me with your posts. I keep thinking things will get EASIEr as the twins age, but it doesnt appear so!!I miss sleep. Sounds like as soon as you get something established they change their ways. Update soon, I love your blog!

My daughter flips all night long too!!! She is so stubborn she flips as soon as I've flipped her back. Sometimes she waits until I've climbed into bed. Because I'm stubborn (and totally freaked by SIDS) I spend the night constantly flipping her back over!

I thought of you recently. Saw a product called sticky buns- a onesie with nonskid sticky buns on the butt. Supposedly to keep babies from slipping down in their swings, seats, etc.